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SEVIER AND LITTLE RIVER COUNTIES. ARK. 






Sevier County, Arkansas 



Sevier County lies almost in the southwest 
corner of the state and in the most western 
tier of counties. It borders on Oklahoma 
for 17 miles and extends southward to with- 
in 20 miles of Red River and the Texas line. 

This county is in the southern foothills of 
the Ozark Mountains and its general slope 
is south and southeast. It is well watered 
and well drained. It is bounded on the east 
by the Saline Ri'ver and on the south by the 
Little River. The Cossatot and Rolling 
Fork rivers cross the county from north to 
south, emptying into Little River. Numer- 
ous tributaries, fed principally by perpetual 
springs, flow into all four of these rivers. 
Sevier County embraces about 600 square 
miles, or 384,000 acres. Eighty per cent of 
its area will be tillable when the timber has 
been cleared away. 

About half the soil in the county is red. 
The color is due to the presence of con- 
siderable quantities of iron, which guaran- 
tees a rich color and flavor to peaches and 
other fruits. Some of the red land is grav- 
elly and some is sandy. Both kinds have a 
subsoil of red clay. There are two kinds of 
black land in the county. One is a black 
sandy loam, found principally in the ri'ver 
and creek bottoms and very productive. 
The other is known as black lime land, 
found mostly in the lower Cossatot valley 
in the southeastern part of the county. It 
is especially adapted to the cultivation of 
alfalfa. 

The climate of Sevier County is one of 
the best found anywhere in the United 
States. It is remarkably healthful and is 
free from extremes and sudden changes. 
Lying in the southern foothills of the 
Ozarks, Se'vier County is protected by those 
mountains from the icy blizzards of the 
North. From the southern boundary of the 
county an almost unbroken plain slopes 
gently to the Gulf of Mexico, allowing the 
gulf breeze to sweep inland and temper the 
enervating heat of summer. Even in the 
hottest weather the heat in the day-time is 
but little greater than in the North Central 
states. The nights are always cool enough 
for one to get plenty of refreshing sleep. 

Protected by wooded hills for many miles 
in every direction except southward, Sevier 
County has little to fear from either drouths 
or storms. The homeseeker from any sec- 
tion where climatic extremes prevail will 
find a pleasing change on coming to Sevier 
County. 

Agriculture has succeeded lumbering as 
the leading industry in Sevier County and 



is destined to become still more so when 
more of the land is cleared. Cotton is 
grown extensively and yields from half a 
bale to a bale per acre. Heretofore it has 
been the leading cash crop grown in Sevier 
County. The cotton output is from 10,000 
to 12,000 bales each year, which at usual 
prices brings into the county from $60,000 
to $75,000. 

Next in importance is the corn crop. The 
uplands yield about 2.5 bushels per acre and 
the bottom lands about 40 bushels. Oats 
and millet do well and are grown extensive- 
ly. Wheat, rye and kaffir corn are grown in 
small quantities. Sugar cane yields as high 
as 700 gallons per acre. Sorghum is grown 
extensively both for molasses and for hay. 
Cowpeas are grown for hay and to store ni- 
trogen in the soil. Peanuts yield abundant- 
ly and are used for hay as well as other 
purposes. 

Timothy, clover and red top have been 
grown in small quantities and do well in 
most parts of the county. Alfalfa produces 
four crops each season on the black lime 
lands of the southeastern part of the coun- 
ty. Bermuda grass thrives here and is ex- 
cellent for lawns, pasturage and hay. It 
also prevents erosion and soil waste. Among 
other crops grown in smaller quantities are 
broom corn and tobacco. 

Two crops of Irish potatoes can be grown 
each season on the same soil, the first crop 
being ready for the market by the latter 
part of May. The red Triumph is the favor- 
ite and shipments are made in car lots. 
Tomatoes are grown for shipment in car 
lots and for canning at the local cannery. 
Sevier County tomatoes are noted for their 
size, color, flavor and shipping qualities. 
Seventy-five acres are being grown this sea- 
son in the 'vicinity of De Queen for the local 
cannery. Rocky Ford cantaloupes are 
shipped extensively. Melons do equally well, 
but have not been shipped on a large scale. 
Lettuce, onions, spinach, radishes, cabbage, 
turnips, beets, carrots, okra and other kinds 
of garden truck are easily grown and yield 
abundantly. 

The soil of Sevier County is especially 
adapted to peach culture. All varieties do 
well here. The Early Wheeler, the Sneed 
and the Elberta are the varieties most 
grown. 

The largest commercial peach orchard in 
the world is in Sevier County, between De 
Queen and Horatio. It is operated by the 
Southern Orchard Planting Company and 
contains about 3,000 acres of bearing trees. 

E'arly varieties of apples do equally as 
well. Plums are shipped extensively. Apri- 



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SOUTHERN ORCHARD PLANTING COMPANY'S ORCHARD, HORATIO, ARK. 



cots, cherries, figs, grapes and pears are 
grown. The strawberries that are grown on 
the uplands are of fine color and flavor. 
Blackberries, dewberries and raspberries 
are beginning to receive attention and give 
very satisfactory results. 

Pecans are indigenous in the river and 
creek bottoms and never fail to produce. 
The soft-shelled varieties bear well when 
grafted on the native stock. The chestnut 
does well on the uplands and can be grown 
from seed or grafted into the native chin- 
quapin. The Japanese persimmon yields 
abundantly and produces fine fruit. 

Because the county is of comparatively 
recent development, stock raising has not 
received 'very much attention. Horses, 
mules, cows and hogs are being raised in 
increasing numbers and the grade is being 
improved all the time. Sheep and floats 
thrive on the uplands. Poultry of all ki:ids 
do well and increasing attention is being 
given to standard breeds of poultry. Eggs 
are shipped and there are good openings 
in this county for persons wishing to pro- 
duce poultry and eggs for the markets. 
Chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and guineas 
thrive. Good honey is made from the native 
flowers, but not much attention has been 
given as yet to bee-keeping on a commercial 
scale. 

Most of the large game has been killed 
or driven away, but small game is yet 
abundant and the streams are full of fish. 

The great mineral wealth of Sevier County 
is as yet undeveloped. Enough prospecting 
has been done, however, by expert miner- 
alogists to demonstrate the fact that this 
county is well supplied with minerals of 
various kinds. 

Vast deposits of antimony have been 
found at several places in the northern part 
of the county, covering more than 27 square 



miles. Just south of the antimony deposits 
is a belt of lead and zinc, covering 50 square 
miles and stretching east and west clear 
across the county. In one 200-foot shaft 
several distinct levels of lead and rosin 
zinc have been found. 

A well defined vein of quartz has been 
found in large quantities in a shaft about 
four miles north of De Queen. On being as- 
sayed this quartz was found to contain 120 
ounces of silver and 210 pounds of copper 
to each ton, with a trace of gold. At pres- 
ent prices of ore this percentage of silver 
and copper is worth $100 a ton. 

A considerable deposit of manganese of 
high grade has been found about five miles 
south of De Queen. Iron exists in consider- 
able quantities in the red lands of the coun- 
ty, giving an especially rich color and flavor 
to peaches and other fruit. Iron, sulphur 
and calcium are found in solution in the 
sheet of excellent artesian water that is 
found in abundance at a depth of from 200 
to 400 feet in various parts of the county. 
Besides the artesian water there are numer- 
ous flowing streams fed by perennial 
springs, and plenty of water for domestic 
purposes can be had all over the county at 
depths ranging from 20 to 40 feet. 

Chalk of the kind used in making Port- 
land cement has been found on the south- 
eastern border of the county. A half-mile 
belt of lime-stone extends east and west 
clear across the county. 

Oflicial reports include Sevier County in 
the geological area embraced in the Caddo 
oil and gas field. It is on a line between the 
oil and gas fields of Oklahoma and those of 
Louisiana. A test well is now being drilled 
in the southeastern part of the county at an 
expense of several thousand dollars. Both 
oil and gas liave been found, but the supply 
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of the well. It is confidently expected that 
oil in large quantity will be found at a 
greater depth. Leases have been taken on 
1,200 acres near Lockesburg and on 4,000 
acres a few miles west of De Queen. More 
test wells are to be put down soon. The 
famous Trenton rock crops out by upheaval 
at several points near De Queen. Lignite 
and coal indications have been found at 
several places in the county and expert min- 
eralogists say all surface Indications give 
promise of coal, oil and gas in immense 
quantities. 

A deposit of asphaltum has been found 
about twelve miles southeast of De Queen. 
Umber of very durable grade and of three 
distinct colors has been found at points 
ranging from four to twelve miles east of 
De Queen. Shale suitable for pressed brick 
and tile is found six miles north. Sand and 
gravel suitable for building purposes is wide- 
ly distributed in the county. Salt is found, 
though probably not in such quantities as 
to be commercially profitable. A sparkling 
white brilliant, approximating the diamond 
in luster, though not in value, is found in 
many places in the county, as a result of 
geological upheaval. Some granite has been 
found, though it has not been determined 
whether it is here as a result of glacial ac- 
tion or geological upheaval. 

Sevier County was heavily timbered unti' 
quite recently and still exports large quanti- 
ties of lumber and other timber products, 
including cross-ties and telegraph poles. 
The timber industry in this county now 
ranks second, as agriculture has advanced 
to first place. But for many years to 
come there will be enough timber in this 
county for local use and plenty of timber 
for fuel and general farm use. Most of 
the timber of commercial value is yellow 
pine, but there are still considerable quan- 



tities of red oak, white oak, hickory, cypress, 
sweet gum, red cedar, sycamore, ash, elm 
and holly. 

Except for the lumber industry, manu- 
facturing in Sevier County is yet in its in- 
fancy. Heretofore lumbering has been one 
or the leading industries of this county, sec- 
ond only to farming in importance. Numer- 
ous saw mills and planing mills are at work 
converting the forests of yellow pine into 
building material and the oak and hickory 
into stock for wagons and farming imple- 
ments. Oak and gum cross-ties are shipped 
extensively. Cypress is used for lumber, 
shingles and telegraph poles. The cedar 
brakes yield large quantities of telephone 
poles. 

The ice factory at De Queen has a capaci- 
ty of 25 tons a day, and in connection with 
it has a bottling works with a daily capacity 
of 500 dozen bottles. The same company 
that operates the ice factory supplies the 
people of De Queen with electric lights and 
with power for operating small electric 
motors. 

The canning factory at De Queen now 
takes care of considerable quantities of fruit 
and truck and is to be enlarged to meet the 
increasing demand. Many of the fruit grow- 
ers have installed home canneries to take 
care of such fruit as cannot be shipped ad- 
vantageously. A box factory operated in 
connection with one of the local planing 
mills supplies boxes and crates for the ship- 
pers and will be enlarged as occasion may 
require. 

Several cotton gins and grist mills in va- 
rious parts of the county gin the cotton crop 
and grind part of the corn crop into meal 
and chops. 

The possibilities in the way of industrial 
expansion in Sevier County are great. The 
natural resources have not at all been devel- 




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oped, yet they are present in such variety, 
that their exploitation in course ot time may 
become one of the most important industries 
of this county. There are great possibilities 
in the chalk, clay, shale, asphalt, oil, lead 
and zinc, antimony, manganese and other in- 
dications found in so many places. Water 
power is abundant in the county and a good 
many thousand horse power can be devel- 
oped when the need for the same comes. 

The county already has good railway facili- 
ties. The Kansas City Southern Railway 
crosses the county from north to south with 
a total mileage of 29.88 miles in the county. 
A direct freight and express service to Kan- 
sas City, Port Arthur and all intermediate 
points is regularly maintained. The De 
Queen & Eastern Railway has a mileage of 
21.63 miles in the county and extends on 
eastward into Howard County. The Mem- 
phis, Paris & Gulf Railway cuts across the 
soutlaeastern pai't of Sevier County with a 
mileage of five miles. 

Fairly good public roads now connect all 
parts of the county. The more important 
ones are being graded and graveled at the 
rate of five or six miles a year. There are 
now 25 miles of graveled roads in the coun- 
ty and more are being built each year. 
There are in the county about forty bridges, 
of which nine are of steel and concrete con- 
struction, costing $40,000. The wooden bridg- 
es are being replaced with steel construc- 
tion as rapidly as practicable. All graveled 
roads are on easy grades and all culverts 
are being built of concrete. 

There are sixty-eight school districts in 
the county and a school population of 6,222. 
In the larger towns good graded schools are 
maintained, with a nine-months course. All 
the larger towns have local telephone ex- 



changes and all parts of the county are 
reached by rural lines. The railway mail 
service on three lines, fourteen post offices, 
five star routes and six rural free delivery 
routes, provide the necessary postal facili- 
ties. The financial dealings are transacted 
through seven banks. The various public 
buildings, worth about $40,000, are new and 
in good condition. 

The present population of Sevier County 
is 22,000, of whom about 4,000 reside in De 
Queen, tlie county seat, about 1,500 at 
Lockesburg, and from 500 to 1,000 each at 
Gillham, Horatio and other points. 

As has been shown in the foregoing para- 
graphs, Sevier County has vast natural re- 
sources only partially developed. Soil, cli- 
mate, mineral resources, transportation fa- 
cilities, citizenship and social institutions 
unite to make this an ideal location in which 
to make a home and rear a family. 

Immigration from the older states to Se- 
vier County lias been steady if not very 
large. Sevier County had no great bodies of 
land which could be bought by colonizers 
and be sold to farmers, in tracts to suit. 
The lands are owned by hundreds of individ- 
uals and a few lumber companies and are 
sold by their owners at their worth. Deeded 
land can be bought at prices ranging from 
$5 to $50 an acre, according to the quality, 
location and improvements made thereon, 
and in the parts of the county farthest away 
from the railroads some public land can still 
be homesteaded. On these deeded lands, 
which are as cheap as lands can be had any- 
where, there are most excellent opportuni- 
ties for those who desire to engage in gen- 
eral farming, stock raising, commercial 
trucking, fruit growing, dairying and poul- 
try raising. 




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Qillham, Sevier County, Arkansas 



Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas, is a 
town of 400 people, situated on tlie Kansas 
City Southern Railway, 421 miles south of 
Kansas City and twelve miles north of De 
Queen, the county seat. It is a brisk little 
business point, drawing trade from an ex- 
tensive territory, extending far into Okla- 
homa. There are in Gillham three large 
general merchandise establishments which 
carry stocks valued from $15,000 to $25,000 
each, and the town transacts a gross annual 
business of $150,000 to $200,000. The town 
has also a well equipped drug store, a fur- 
niture store, a large warehouse, two grocery 
stores, two good hotels, two blacksmith 
shops, barber shop, telephone exchange of- 
fice, restaurant, three churches, a good 
school, the Bank of Gillham and the Gillham 
Real Estate Company. 

Gillham is situated in a rich mineral belt, 
which is about seven miles wide and some 
forty odd miles long, extending from the 
Saline River, in the eastern part of Sevier 
County, far into Oklahoma. The general 
direction is from northeast to southwest, 
nearly all of the belt being in the north 
quarter of the county. The minerals found 
in this region are lead, zinc, copper, anti- 
mony, iron ore and some manganese. Lead, 
zinc and antimony ores have been shipped 
from Gillham in considerable quantity, but 
mining activity in this region has always 
been spasmodic. Six miles southeast of 
Gillham is the Bellah Mine, which has 
shipped lead, zinc and antimony; four miles 
northwest, the Davis Mine, producing lead 
and zinc; six miles west, the Copper King, 
partially developed and producing copper, 
lead and zinc; three miles west, the Balcom 
Mines, lead and zinc; two miles south, the 
Valley Mine, producing antimony; three 
miles east, the Wolfton Mine, antimony, and 
eight miles east, the Antimony Mines. All 
of these have shipped ores. Besides there 
are numerous prospects in various stages of 
development, all with good indications of 
niineral. The ore is found in five or six 
parallel mineral veins from three to- twenty 
feet wide, extending across the northern 
part of the county. 

As stated, there has been no systematic 
continuous mining, as mining is conducted 
in other localities, but the showings made 
have been good enough to warrant a thor- 
ough exploration of the field and this may 
be expected in the near future. 

Of the adjacent country, say the lands 



within a radius of five miles, about 65 per 
cent is tillable, and half of this is taken up 
in farms. On the average farm from fifteen 
to twenty-five per cent is in actual cultiva- 
tion. The average production is about 30 
bushels of corn, or one-third bale of cotton 
to the acre. The cotton shipments from 
Gillham amount to about 2,000 bales per 
anniun. The corn and other forage crops 
are consumed at home and are shipped in 
the form of hogs and cattle About 200 acres 
are devoted to the cultivation of fruits and 
truck, and a large acreage is splendidly 
adapted for this purpose. Strawberries 
yield fine crops and if produced in commer- 
cial quantity would yield handsome profits. 
Potatoes are grown twice a year and from 
two to three crops are grown of most vege- 
tables. Cannery stock of all kinds can be 
had very cheaply, and broom corn, sorghum, 
timothy, blue grass, clover, millet, etc., do 
very well. The natural pasturage is good, 
and as land is very cheap, there are fine 
openings for goat and sheep ranches and for 
raising cattle on a large scale. We are far 
enough south to produce an income from 
the farm nearly every month of the year, if 
we farmed with that end in view. Poultry 
eggs, butter, etc., we can sell and produce 
every month in the year. In March we 
ship green onions, radishes, etc.; in April, 
strawberries and vegetables; in May, pota- 
toes, beans, lettuce, etc.; June, early peach- 
es, early apples, spring chickens, etc.; July, 
peaches, etc.; August and September, peach- 
es, -all sorts of vegetables, potatoes; October, 
corn, grain, hay, peaches; November, Decem- 
ber and January, poultry, eggs, live stock, 
cotton, sweet potatoes, etc., etc. The natur- 
al pasturage will be good nine months in the 
year, and during the winter months live 
stock is easily carried through, because the 
weather is mild and but little feed and shel- 
ter, as compared with Northern localities, 
are required. There is a large production of 
railroad ties, staves, etc. 

Land good for general farming, for raising 
live stock, for fruit and commercial truck, 
can be had on easy terms at prices ranging 
from $5 per acre to $10 per acre, unimproved 
land, and for $10 to $30 per acre for im- 
proved land. Land is generally cleared at 
a cost of $6 to $10 per acre. During the 
past year about forty farms have been 
cleared at an average cost of $7.50 per acre. 
Fifteen new families have recently settled 
in this neighborhood. 



Horatio, Sevier County, Arkansas 



Horatio, Ark., is 441 miles south of Kansas 
City, and 47 miles north of Texarkana, Tex., 
and about 8 miles from De Queen, the county 
seat. It has a population of 1,600 and is one 



of the old towns of the county, in fact, it 
was the first town in Sevier County to be 
supplied with railroad facilities. It has been 
a trading point for a large scope of country 



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SEVIER AND LITTLE RIVER COUNTIES. ARK. 



for many years. It has a bank, with $50,000 
deposits, ten or twelve large mercantile es- 
tablishments and handles from 1,500 to 2,500 
bales of cotton per year. Among its ship- 
ments during 1910 were 500 car loads of 
peaches, 800 crates of cantaloupes, 450 
crates of strawberries, 2,000 pounds of poul- 
try, 20 car loads of cattle, 2,000 cases of 
eggs, 10 car loads of hogs, 200 car loads of 
hardwood lumber, 325 car loads of railroad 
ties and 500 car loads of pine lumber. Car 
load shipments of Irish potatoes are fre- 
quently made. In town and within two miles 
are three large saw mills, a shingle mill, 
quarries, gravel washing plant and minor 
industries. 

The largest enterprise at Horatio and the 
largest of its kind in the United States 
is the great peach orchard of the Southern 
Orchard Planting Company, which contains 
over three thousand acres all planted to 
Elberta peaches. Not all the trees in this 
orchard are yet bearing, and the year 1910 
was not a good peach year, but the total 
shipments from this orchard and one or two 
small orchards in the vicinity amounted to 
500 car loads. Peaches were unusually high 



in price, as the crop was scant almost 
everywhere. 

Horatio has been growing steadily, adding 
one or two hundred people yearly to its 
population,- opening up new lines of business 
and gradually replacing its older buildings 
with modern brick and stone structures. 

The soil and other conditions are similar 
to those of De Queen and Lockesburg, with 
the difference perhaps that more land is 
available for new farms right here than at 
the other points. There has been a regu- 
lar increase in the rural population from 
year to year, and during the year 1910 one 
hundred new families settled in the vicinity, 
and of these, fifteen opened up new farms, 
clearing one hundred acres of new land and 
making improvements valued at $2,500. 

The total acreage in cultivation within 
five miles of Horatio is 20,000 acres, of 
which 4,100 acres are planted in fruits, 3,000 
acres in corn, 1,500 acres in oats and small 
grain, 3,000 in cotton, 250 in commercial 
truck and 350 acres in hay and forage. 

Land values are very low, ranging from 
$5 per acre to $15 or $20 for unimproved, 
and from $10 per acre to $100 per acre 
for improved land. 



Lockesburg, Sevier County, Arkansas 



Lockesburg is one of the oldest towns in 
Arkansas and, until a few years ago, was 
the county seat of Sevier County. It is a 
good little business town, and at the present 
time has a population of 1,250, a high school, 
a graded school, several handsome churches, 
a bank, two or three hotels, several saw 
mills, grist mills and cotton gins. Some 
twenty-five or more large mercantile stocks 
are carried and from five to six thousand 
bales of cotton are marketed here annually. 
A large business is done in the shipping of 
live stock and hardwood timbers in the form 
of railroad ties, barrel staves, fence posts 
and mine timbers. The fruit and truck 
growing industry has developed into a profit- 
able business and car load lots of peaches, 
berries, potatoes, eggs and poultry are 
shipped from this station. The adjacent 
country has in part been farmed for over 
seventy-five years, but Sevier County re- 
mained thinly settled until the Kansas" City 
Southern Railway was built, when several 
new prosperous towns came into existence. 
Since then the De Queen & Eastern Railroad 
was built to Lockesburg, making available 
for cultivation a large acreage of tillable 
lands and causing a rapid increase in popu- 
lation and Improvements. 

The town lies about the center of a smooth 
ridge about fifteen miles wide, running 
southward from the Ozark Mountains. On 
the western edge of this ridge is the Cossa- 
tot and on the eastern side the Saline River, 
both clear, beautiful streams full of fine 



game fishes. Numerous smaller streams 
flowing easterly and westerly from the back- 
bone of the ridge empty into these rivers. 
Most of the country near Lockesburg was 
originally heavily timbered. Large tracts 
were cleared fifty and sixty years ago and 
many farms have been that long in cultiva- 
tion. Between these old farms and planta- 
tions there were considerable areas of un- 
occupied land, which are now being brought 
under tillage. 

There is much diversity in these lands, 
some being timber lands, some uplands, 
some rich river bottoms, suited for various 
purposes. A large acreage is highly im- 
proved, while on other lands the improve- 
ments have yet to be made. The bottom 
lands along the Rolling Fork, Cossatot and 
Saline rivers are exceptionally rich cot- 
ton and corn lands, capable of producing a 
bale to a bale and a half of cotton and from 
50 to 75 bushels of corn per acre. Alfalfa 
and other forage crops yield wonderfully 
well on these lands. The larger proportion 
of bottom lands is south of Lockesburg, and 
these are unusually heavy black loams. 
North of the town the soils vary from black 
loams to reddish gravelly soils. These lands 
are capable of a wonderful range of produc- 
tion, and by many are preferred for fruit 
and truck crops to any other land in the 
state. The uplands produce from 25 to 40 
bushels of corn and from two-fifths to three- 
fourths of a bale of cotton to the acre. The 
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long growing season, is probably a crop and 
a half as compared with a full crop grown 
in the Northern states. 

Cotton was at one time the only export or 
money-crop. In the last few years the farm- 
ers have gone largely into fruit and truck 
growing for the market. Year before last 
300 cars of peaches were shipped from this 
county. During 1909 a severe freeze reduced 
the crop, but 100 cars of very fine peaches, 
bringing $3 per bushel, were shipped from 
Horatio. Lockesburg will ship this year 6 
cars, while from the county there will be 500 
cars shipped and a considerable quantity 
canned. 



Being on the south slope of the Ozark 
Mountains it is possible to get a peach crop 
almost every season. Potato growing on a 
commercial scale was begun in 1908 and 
since then the annual shipments amount to 
about twenty to twenty-five car loads. Most 
of the growers plant sweet potatoes after 
the Irish potato crop is removed. Sorghum 
cane for syrup, broom corn, cowpea hay are 
extensively^ grown and are profitable. Wheat 
produces from 10 to 30 bushels to the acre. 
Unimproved lands, in the vicinity of highly 
improved farms, range in price from $5 to 
$30 per acre. 



The City of De Queen, Sevier County, Arkansas 



De Queen was laid out as a town in 1897 
and was made a city of the second class and 
county seat of Sevier County in 1904. It is 
now a modern, up-to-date city of beautiful 
homes, substantial brick business struc- 
tures, granitoid walks and graded streets, 
with all the advantages and conveniences 
usually found in much larger cities. With 
a population approximating 4,800 it is the 
best business point for a distance of 100 
miles north of Texarkana, and for fifty to 
seventy-five miles east and west. It is on 
the main line of the Kansas City Southern 
Railway at its intersection with the De 
Queen & Elastern Railroad. The De Queen 
& Eastern Railroad is in operation for a 
distance of 35 miles eastward of De Queen, 
and is now extending its line 50 miles west- 
ward to Valliant, Oklahoma. 

The retail trade territory of De Queen ex- 
tends about twenty miles both north and 
south, 30 miles east and 40 miles west. Cot- 
ton is hauled here on wagons for market 
from points 25 to 40 miles away. Seven pas- 
senger trains enter and leave De Queen 
daily. The Kansas City Southern Railway 
is making an important railway division 
point of De Queen, and has now under con- 
struction a roundhouse, machine shops and 
over fifteen miles of yard tracks, involving 
an outlay of $250,000. This, with the com- 
pletion of the De Queen & Eastern Railroad 
from Valliant, Okla., through De Queen to 
Hot Springs, Ark., will open up splendid 
possibilities. 

The Prairie Oil and Gas Company of Ok- 
lahoma have their pipe line running through 
De Queen from Oklahoma oil fields to the 
Gulf and have completed the construction 
of an immense pumping station at De Queen, 
insuring cheap fuel for manufacturing and 
other purposes. De Queen has just complet- 
ed a splendid waterworks system, with water 
supply from artesian wells of exceptional 
purity. De Queen has electric light plant, 
ice plant, telephone system, bottling works, 
and several canning factories of various ca- 



pacities to handle the immense fruit and to- 
mato crop. De Queen has over five miles of 
granitoid walks, and a saw mill employing 
eight hundred men. Industrial establish- 
ments of city employ twelve hundred men, 
with monthly pay-roll of over $50,000. Near- 
ly all the public buildings and business hous- 
es are substantial structures of brick. Among 
the large brick structures are the Court 
House, High School Building, the Bee Opera 
House, the De Queen & Eastern shops, cost- 
ing $50,000, and the new $20,000 passenger 
station of the Kansas City Southern Rail- 
way; the Electric Light Plant, $30,000; the 
Prairie Oil and Gas Pumping Station with 
adjacent improvements, $150,000; the Coun- 
ty Jail; City Lockup; Ice Plant, Bottling 
Works and others. Most of the residences 
are substantial frame buildings of modern 
design. De Queen is surrounded and sup- 
ported by an area of splendid valley, fruit 
and truck lands, the productiveness of which 
is phenomenal. Rural telephones and free 
mail delivery are no longer novelties in 
Sevier County. 

There are five well organized churches in 
De Queen that hold regular services. Be- 
sides there are a number of representatives 
of other churches not yet organized here. 
Named in the order in which they were or- 
ganized, the churches of De Queen are: 
Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian 
and the Cumberland Presbyterian. A Cath- 
olic church will soon be established. Church 
people of pearly all denominations have 
places of worship in the country. The 
schools of Sevier County, Arkansas, are 
good. De Queen has excellent graded 
schools and a corps of competent teachers. 
Forty thousand dollars has been appropriat- 
ed for building three ward schools equaling 
in construction and capacity the present 
high school building. The school district 
extends beyond the present city limits, in- 
cluding about two square miles of territory. 
The scholastic year last thirty-six weeks; 
the attendance is about 1,000, An able 



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superintendent and fifteen skilled teachers 
are employed, special instruction being pro- 
'vided in music and expression. Under the 
present efficient administration the entire 
course of study covers eleven years. It is 
carefully graded according to the latest and 
most approved standard and the text-books 
have been chosen with especial reference 
to the needs of such a course. The high 
school course covers three years, and is the 
standard high school course. Graduates are 
admitted on diploma to the leading colleges 



of the state and the State University. The 
country schools average well with those of 
any other rural district. 

The mercantile branches are well repre- 
sented in De Queen, there being from twenty 
to thirty establishments, some of them car- 
rying very large stocks. The financial in- 
stitutions of De Queen are the First Nation- 
al Bank of De Queen, the Bank of De Queen 
and the Farmers and Merchants Bank and 
Trust Company. 



Little River County, Arkansas 



Little River County is the southwestern 
county of Arkansas, bordering on Oklahoma 
on the west and Texas on the south. It lies 
between Little River and Red River, both 
streams having some of the richest bottom 
lands in the state of Arkansas. Ashdown, a 
thrifty little city of 2,000 people, is the coun- 
ty seat, and among the other towns in the 
county along the Kansas City Southern Rail- 
way are Wilton, Allene and Wintlirop. Ash- 
down is the junction point of the Kansas 
City Southern, St. Louis & San Francisco, 
and the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf railways. 
It is quite a busy place, having a large 
cotton oil mill, two banks, good hotels, a 
number of large mercantile establishments 
and minor industries. It recently erected 
a court house costing $30,000, and a school 
building which cost $5,000. Allene has about 
300 inhabitants, a saw mill and planer, two 
stores, and a good school. Wilton has about 
500 people, several churches, a good school, 
one bank, and depends largely on its agri- 
cultural resources. Winthrop is the north- 
ernmost town in the county and has 600 
people. It is 449 miles from Kansas City 
and 39 miles north of Texarkana. It has a 
good high school where the higher branches 
are taught, several well established business 
houses, two churches, etc., etc. 

All of these towns are surrounded by a 
good farming country, which produces 
abundantly of corn, oats, Kaffir corn, cotton, 
alfalfa, hay, millet, cowpeas and fruits. 

Two crops of Irish potatoes can be raised 
each year. By planting oats early, after 
cutting the same, a corn and cowpea crop 
can be grown. The soils adapted to alfalfa, 
which is always in demand in this state, 
will make from three to five ton's per acre. 
The branch, creek or river bottoms are the 
soils for alfalfa. They are alluvial soils 
and the subsoil is usually deep and as fer- 
tile as the top soil. These bottoms are ideal 
for alfalfa, and with proper sowing, mowing 
and grazing, will make a continuous 
meadow, and one tliat produces the earliest 
as well as the latest hay, and from four to 
six cuttings and three to five tons per acre. 
For hog pasture there is nothing to equal 
it. In the cotton producing part of the 



United States it is practically green all the 
year round. 

Little River bottom lands produce from 
fifty to seventy-five bushels of corn, and 
from one-half to one and one-half bales of 
cotton to tlie acre. The uplands usually 
produce from 20 to 40 bushels of corn, and 
from one-third to one bale of cotton per 
acre. Proportionate crops of other kinds 
are grown and profitably marketed. The 
fruit and truck growing industry has not 
yet been organized on a commercial basis, 
but the results of individual efforts show a 
good future for this branch of farming. The 
soils in Little River County are more par- 
ticularly described as follows: 

North of Winthrop about tliree miles is 
Little River, a stream about 150 yards wide, 
full of fish and noted for its fertile bottom 
lands. The lands on both sides are rich, 
producing fine corn, cotton, alfalfa, etc. 
These lands are worth from $6 to $20 per 
acres. Eight miles west of Winthrop we 
come to Oklahoma. In going out this way 
we pass over light and dark sandy loamy 
soil, and red and black gravelly soil, all 
high and dry and practically level. In going 
northwest of Winthrop we cross two 
streams, the first. Hurricane Creek, three- 
fourths miles out, a small creek with some 
fine bottom lands, worth from $5 to $10 per 
acre. After passing out of the small bottom 
the uplands are light and dark sandy loam, 
well adapted to the growth of com, cotton, 
fruit, vegetables, etc. Five miles further 
is Caney Creek, a larger stream running 
through the northwestern corner of the 
county. Its bottoms are from one-half to 
one mile wide. The larger part of the land 
on this creek is dark sandy loam, worth 
from $5 to $10 per acre. After passing out 
of the bottoms tlie soil is principally red 
gravelly sandy soil to Cerro Gordo, Arkan- 
sas. South of town about three-fourths mile 
we come to Cypress Creek, named Cypress 
because it has so many cypress trees along 
its banks. It is a small stream with bot- 
toms about 200 yards wide, dark sandy soil. 
Further in that direction we have light and 
dark sandy soil, but little gravelly lands out 
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half miles is Flat Creek, which runs through 
the county. Its bottoms are about one mile 
wide, fine, fer+ile, dark sandy loam. Beyond 
this the lands are about the same. Travel- 
ing o'ver the public road from Winthrop to 
Foreman, nine miles southeast of Winthrop, 
we cross Colton and Flat creeks, soil as 
above described. The land along this road 
is light and dark sandy, red and black grav- 
elly soil. East of Winthrop about three miles 
we again arrive at Little River where the 
lands are fine. Cane grows tall, trees large, 
and stock stays fat through the winter on 
cane. The river and creek lands are called 
bottom land, and some of it overflows and 
some does not. The other we call upland, 
none of which overflows. The land that 
overflows on these small streams can be 
easily controlled, usually by cleaning out 
the creek, getting the brush and logs cut 
so the water can run off. In traveling over 
this land we come to what we call little 
swags or low places. These are usually 
five or ten acres, and too low for corn or 
cotton, but are usually the very finest of land 
for red top or timothy, and by ditching can 
be used for corn and cotton. We practically 
have no waste lands here. It is all land 
and valuable. In coming this way from the 
north, after you cross Little River, which 
is the northeastern boundary line of Little 
River County, you see no more large hills, 
rocks or mountains. We have small mounds 
which scientists claim are caused by gas 
pushing the land upward, and which oil peo- 
ple say are indications of oil. Near Fore- 
man we have the black and gray land belt. 
The soil on this black land is usually from 
two to five feet deep. We do not believe 
it Is surpassed by any lands in the South- 
west. The gi'ay lands are not so good for 
alfalfa, but just as good for cotton and corn. 
This section is covered with clam shells, 
which shows it was once the bottom of the 
sea and was made by upheavals of past 
ages. Further on to the south we have the 
famous Red River 'valley lands, which are 
unsurpassed by any land for corn, alfalfa, 
etc. Southwest of Foreman about seven 
miles is a deep black loamy soil which is 
very fertile and productive, and especially 
adapted to the growth of alfalfa, and will 
grow from three-fourths to one and one-half 
bales of cotton, 40 to 75 bushels of corn, 5 
to 6 tons of alfalfa per acre. The surface 
of this land is practically level, with just 
enough slope to drain well. There has re- 
cently been established near this land 
Drainage District No. 1, which will furnish 
a perfect system of drainage for about 25,000 
acres of fine land, of which about 10,000 
acres are now in cultivation. None of the 
land in this district could be called swamp 
land, but in a 'very wet year some of it is 
unfit for cultivation, on account of surface 
water. As soon as this ditch is completed 
this land will be a bargain at $50 per acre. 
It is now very cheap. No hard pan lands in 



this country. North of Foreman is dark and 
light sandy loamy soil, and red and black 
gravelly, sandy soil. Two miles south of 
Foreman we strike the black land formation 
found on the west. This black land forms 
a semi-circular belt from two to four miles 
wide, and about fifteen miles of this circle 
is in Little River County, extending west 
into McCurtain County, Oklahoma. South 
of this, four miles from Foreman, we come 
to Walnut Bayou, having a wide bottom, 
whose lands are unsurpassed for fertility 
and are especially adapted to the growth 
of alfalfa, corn and cotton. These bottom 
lands have a deep, rich soil, from five to ten 
feet deep. They also unite with the large 
Red River Valley lands. 

We have some of the richest soil, finest 
climate and best advantages in the South- 
west, and is still undeveloped when com- 
pared with older settlements. In the early 
days a number of large timber companies, 
the Central Coal & Coke Co., M. K. & T. 
Trust Co., and others, came into this county 
and bought up the lands and held them for 
their timber, which is worth from $5 to $15 
per acre. About twelve years ago, when the 
Kansas City Southern Railway, and six 
years later, when the Frisco Railroad was 
completed, large sawmills were put in and 
much of the timber cut and removed. The 
above named companies have now sold their 
lands or have opened them up for sale to 
individual purchasers for cultivation and 
homes. Several thousand acres of these 
lands are now offered in small tracts for $6 
to $10 per acre. Lumber rough at the saw 
mills is worth $10 per thousand feet; pine 
dressed lumber, $14 to $20; heart cypress 
shingles, $3.25 for one thousand. Plenty of 
good oak timber on almost any tract of land 
you might buy, to fence with. Coinfortable 
houses can be built 'very cheaply. By doing 
the work yourself, you can fence one-fourth 
mile of picket fence for $7.50, cost of wire 
and nails. Where you find free government 
homestead lands now, the same are prac- 
tically worthless. Common cows are worth 
from $15 to $20; ponies, $40 to $50; horses, 
from $75 to $100; mules, from $100 to $150. 
Very little blooded stock in this section of 
the country. Roads are rough, houses are 
cheap, no rural routes or telephones out in 
the country. This county needs new people 
who are enterprising and progressive, to 
develop its resources. 

The altitude of Little River County is in 
the average about 379 feet above sea level, 
lying as it does at the southern base of the 
Ozark Mountains, which protect it against 
the blizzards from the North in winter. The 
winters are usually very mild and ice and 
snow are rarely seen. Good, soft freestone 
well and spring water is abundant in the 
larger part of the county. In the black land 
belt, lime water is usually found. The an- 
nual i-ainfall, one year with another, is about 
46 inches. A complete failure of crops has 



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never occurred in the history of this county. 
For a good all around farming country, Lit- 
tle Ri'ver County, while far from being de- 
veloped, is as good as the best. 

The uncultivated acreage in Little River 
County is still quite large, but within the 
last three or four years there has been a 
large immigration of energetic farmers from 
the older states east of the Mississippi River, 
and more permanent improvements have 
been made than in the ten preceding years. 
The farms range in area from 80 to 200 
acres or more and old-fashioned general 
farming, like the production of small grain, 
oats, wheat, corn, cotton, alfalfa and forage 
crops, and the raising of live stock, are the 
engrossing agricultural pursuits. Fruits and 
berries as well as commercial truck yield 
good crops, but the tendency among the 
farmers is to engage in general farming 
rather than in special crops. The produc- 
tion of Hve stock on a larger scale is re- 
ceiving much attention and the country is 
splendidly adapted for this purpose. It is 
only a question of time when this section 



will become famous for its stock feeding 
facilities and its shipments of fat hogs, poul- 
try and dairy products. 

As to industrial possibilities, there is 
available an abundant timber supply, which 
in part is being manufactured. A cotton 
seed oil mill, already in operation, could en- 
large and manufacture fertilizers. Oil and 
gas indications are numerous and it is only 
a question of time when they will be devel- 
oped. The raw material for Portland cement 
is present in such quantity that the largest 
mill in the United States could not work it 
up in 500 years. 

As soon as cheap gas or oil fuel is devel- 
oped, and borings are now being made in 
several places, the valuable clay deposits suit- 
able for brick, tile and pottery can be utilized 
to advantage. The hardwood timber supply 
is very large and of such quality that furni- 
ture factories, cooperage plants, wagon tim- 
ber factories, box, crate and basket fac- 
tories would have suiRcient raw material at 
hand to operate for many years. 



Some Towns in Little River County 



Winthrop, Arkansas 

Winthrop, Ark., is 449 miles south of Kan- 
sas City, Mo., and has a population of 900, 
showing an increase of 100 over the preced- 
ing year. It is a good local trading point 
and handles about 500 to 1,000 bales of 
cotton per year, and ships annually some 
peaches, strawberries, potatoes in car load 
lots, eggs and poultry. Considerable num- 
bers of live stock are also raised, the prin- 
cipal crops being corn, cotton, potatoes and 
various kinds of forage, alfalfa being grown 
more or less extensively. The local manu- 
factures consist of a saw and planing mill, 
two cotton gins, a grist mill, and the smaller 
industries incident to a town of its dimen- 
sions. 

The adjacent country is being rapidly set- 
tled. Over one hundred farms have been 
cleared in the last two or three years. The 
lands, as a rule, are of excellent quality, 
and are sold at very low prices. There are 
at Winthrop a bank, hotel and about a dozen 
mercantile houses. Lands can be purchased 
for $10 to $25 per acre. The shipments 
from Winthrop for 1910 amounted to 200 
bales of cotton, 1 car load Irish potatoes, 
4 car loads of cattle, 1 of horses and mules, 
1 of hogs, 18 of railroad ties and 9 of pine 
lumber. 

Wilton, Arkansas 

Wilton, Ark., has 645 inhabitants, has an 
altitude of 334 feet and is 462 miles south 
of Kansas City. Its general resources are 
farming and stock raising, and the princi- 
pal crops grown are cotton, corn, melons. 



potatoes, etc. Its industrial enterprises con- 
sist of a saw mill and two cotton gins. 
There are in the town two churches, and 
recently a new school building costing $3,000 
was completed. 

The adjacent lands are cheap and of good 
quality, well suited for corn, cotton, alfalfa 
and forage crops generally. The ordinary 
price of farm lands is from $7 to $15 per 
acre. Wilton shipped in 1910: Cotton, 150 
bales; poultry, 5,000 pounds; hogs, 6 cars; 
cattle, 5 cars; hardwood lumber, 10 cars; 
railroad ties, 40 cars, and pine lumber, 41 
cars. During 1910 fifty new people, settled 
upon adjacent lands, purchased 700 acres 
and cleared for cultivation 400 acres of new 
land, at a cost of $2,500. 

Ogden, Arkansas 

Ogden, Ark., 476 miles south of Kansas 
City, Mo., has 750 inhabitants, most of whom 
are engaged in agricultural pursuits. There 
are two sawmills, a school, church and 
several stores. Land values run from 
$J0 to $35 per acre. The country adjacent 
to Ogden has been growing rapidly during 
the past year. Two hundred and fifty new 
people have settled upon farms. Twenty 
new farms were cleared and 1,000 acres put 
in cultivation. One hundred and forty acres 
of this land was planted to commercial truck 
and fruits. 

The increase of population in the town 
was 169 for the year, during which there 
were erected 15 new dwellings, costing 
$7,000; 5 new business buildings, costing 
$27,500; a new hotel, $1,250; a public school, 
$1,700, and a lodge building costing $500. A 
new park was laid out at a cost of $5,000. 



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Allene, Arkansas 

Allene has about 350 inhabitants, mostly 
engaged in farming. There are in operation 
a sawmill, cotton gin and grist mill. The 
adjacent country had an influx of 15 families 
during the past year, who improved three 
hundred acres at a cost of $6,000. Lands 
are valued at $6.50 to $12.00 per acre. 



White Cliffs 

At White Cliffs (Folmina P. O.), are sit- 
uated enormous deposits of chalk and clay 
suitable for the manufacture of cement. A 
factory has been in operation for some 
years. It is now being rebuilt and is to be 
operated in the near future. It is estimated 
that a cement mill could operate 700 years 
on the available raw material, turning out 
1,000 barrels of cement per day. 



Ashdown, Little River County, 
Arkansas 



Ashdown, the county seat of Little River 
County, is 468 miles south of Kansas City, 
'Mo., and 2u miles from Texarkana, Tex. It 
is an important industrial town, situated in 
a fine farming country and has been making 
a steady growth from year to year. Its pop- 
ulation is about 3,000. The quantity of cot- 
ton handled in Ashdown is annually from 
15,000 to 20,000 bales in a good year, and 
the ordinary shipments of farm products 
amount to from 15-20 car loads of corn, 7 
car loads of potatoes, 20-30 cars of cattle, 
2 to 10 cars of horses and mules, 6 to 10 of 
hogs, and smaller quantities of early vege- 
tables, berries, cantaloupes, etc. 

Nearly all the business buildings in Ash- 
down have been replaced with stone and 
brick structures within the last three or 
four years, and the town generally presents 
an attractive appearance. There are in 
Ashdown three banks, some thirty mercan- 
tile houses, a high school, hotel, cotton seed 
oil mill, fertilizer works, three or four saw- 
mills and planing mills, a handle factory, 
bottling works, brick plant, three or four 
cotton gins and grist mills, newspapers, 
restaurants, a trust company, lodge rooms, 
and small local manufacturing enterprises. 
During the past two years there were erect- 
ed in Ashdown sixty new dwellings, costing 
$70,000; sixteen new business buildings, 
costing $103,000; one factory building, cost- 
ing $25,000. A new hotel building costing 
$30,000 is now under construction. The 
street and park improvements cost $3,000. 
The Prairie Gas and Oil Company has built 
a pipe line through the town, the same be- 
ing 26 miles long and costing -$10,000 per 
mile. 



The transportation facilities of Ashdown 
are excellent, consisting of the Kansas City 
Southern Railway, running north and south, 
the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, east 
and west, and the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf, 
running northeast and southwest. 

The country surrounding Ashdown is rich 
in valuable hard woods, and wood working 
establishments of every kind would do well 
here, particularly a furniture factory, box 
factory, stave mill, etc. As the town is 
steadily growing there would be a good 
opening for an ice and electric light plant, 
a steam laundry, bakery and more general 
stores. As this is an excellent fruit and 
truck country, there is a good opening also 
for a cannery, pickling works, etc. 

The lands adjacent to Ashdown are being 
rapidly settled. Lands ranging in price 
from $5 to $20 for unimproved lands, and 
from $25 to $50 for improved lands. 

During 1909 and 1910 ninety new families 
have settled and have cleared two thousand 
acres of land, at a cost of $38,000. There 
are in cultivation within five miles of Ash- 
down, fifteen thousand acres, of which 300 
acres have been planted in fruits, 5,000 in 
corn, 1,000 in small grain, 8,500 in cotton, 
50 in commercial truck, and 500 in alfalfa. 

The shipments from Ashdown in 1910 
amounted to 50 car loads of corn, 7,500 
bales of cotton, 500 crates of cantaloupes, 6 
car loads of Irish potatoes, 20 cars of cattle, 
20 of horses and mules, 6 of hogs, 100 cars 
of hardwood lumber, 500 cars of railroad 
ties, 150 cars of pine lumber and 15,000 
pounds of hides and furs. 



14 SEVIER AND LITTLE RIVER COUNTIES. ARK. 

Homeseekers' Round=Trip Tickets 

To points in Arkansas, and return, limited are slightly higher, 

to twenty-five days, are on sale at very low Stop-overs, on round-trip homeseelvers' 

rates, on the first and third Tuesdays of tickets to points south of Ashdown, Arkan- 

each month, from points in Illinois, Wiscou- sas, will be allowed at Ashdown on both 

sin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South going and return trip. 

Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, For rates, address S. G. Warner, G. P. A., 

while from points east of Illinois, the rates Kansas City, Mo. 

Household Goods and Emigrant Movables 

The term "Household Goods and Emigrant trees and shrubbery; lumber and shingles; 
Movables" will apply to property of an in- fence posts; one portable house; seeds for 
tending settler only, and will include tools planting purposes; feed for live stoclv while 
and implements of calling (including hand in transit, and household goods, but does not 
and foot power machines, but not including include general merchandise, nor any ar- 
machinery driven by steam, electricity, gas, tides which are intended for sale or specula- 
gasoline, compressed air or water, other tion. Shipments of emigrant movables must 
than agricultural implements) ; second-hand contain a sufl[icient quantity of furniture to 
store fixtures of merchants; second-hand 've- make the intention of a permanent residence 
hides (not including self-propelling vehicles, at destination evident. 

hearses and similar vehicles) ; livestoclv. Information about freight rates can be 

not to exceed ten (10) head (subject to de- obtained by addressing R. R. Mitchell, Gen- 

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